Thread 724093718

>does nothing
>wins
That easy huh?

Guh... he's so dreamy..

probably because his approach of not wanting to squeeze every fucking penny at every possible second helps gaming a bit

Gabe is barely involved with Valve anymore.
Find another figure head to shill Valve, retarded drone.

so, I guess cs2 is now a hero shooter

>>724093718 (OP)
Yes.
Not sucking retarded investor cock is always a better choice than to suck retarded investor cock.

This will be even more obvious when every corporate videogame company implodes when the AI bubble pops, leaving valve with even less competition.

>rears his ugly head in when something is even remotely considered Valve

Honestly I've never had any opinion about him until right now. I specifically tracked down the Steam thread that was up to post this.

I was just consooming content from a microcelebrity in my niche microinterest and found a video featuring a Valve employee. I can't explain the relief that washed over me when I scrolled to the comments and there wasn't a pinned comment from ValveNewsNetwork going "Great video! If I may...".

I finally get it. I fucking hate this guy now.

>>724094674
"Maximising shareholder value" is shorthand for "cutting off your own limbs and eating them to maximise caloric intake this quarter".

>>724093718 (OP)
>actively made steam solely to fuck over the concept of trading pc games and buying them second hand so companies would get maximum profits

O M G YAAA KAWEEEN DADDY
Fuck zoomers

>Does something for a change
>Fucks over gambling addicts and knife speculators
Thank you Gaben!

>>724097508
Kill yourself you fucking retard

>>724097586
>moves a finger
>makes the UMPC market viable
>scratches his bloated belly
>makes Linux gaming viable
>injects Ozempic
>makes PC players willingly look at personalised game ads on his store that make them find cool vidya
>sneezes
>creates Steam input, arguably the best and most versatile controller input translation layer
>burps
>makes thousands of turd worlders commit suicide
Yeah, I'm thinking Gaben is based

>>724097508
nobody bought that shit second hand you dumb poorfag

>>724093975
>Gabe is barely involved with Valve anymore.
Fake news.

>>724097508
>Found a unified marketplace niche missing in the PC and decided to capitalize on it
Yeah

>>724098176
he is old and dying
you think he was responsible for deadlock?
or cs2?
or the recent knife shit?
he is just there, in his yacht. playing dota.

>>724098630
he was pretty involved in the steam deck

Does a hell of a lot more than the competition. Most other PC platforms are just sales and downloads and jack shit of anything outside that scope.
Battle.net is old as shit too and could have easily taken a similar path but never did.
Epic doesn't have much going for it either, but at least brings unreal engine and cross platform play to the table, both of which are weak points for Valve.

this isn't really true, valve is always updating steam with new random features.

>loses
>cultists pretend they won something

>>724102502
>twiddle their thumbs, let players pirate on their own handheld device and add pirated steam games as non-steam games
>top 10 vidya company

>>724102502
>across all platforms when applicable
surely you understand what this means right

>>724102502
Games by EA in 2021
>Battlefield 2042
>NHL 22
>FIFA 22
>It Takes Two
>Mass Effect Legendary Edition
>Knockout City
>Sims 4 DLC
>F1 22
>Madden 22
>Lost in Random
Profit: 7 Billion

Games by Valve in 2021
>
Profit: 7 Billion

>>724102502
you should compare number of employees per company on that chart and see how it looks

>>724094263
it's an hero shooter you stupid newfag

>>724105032
>steamies defend game company for not producing games
Cultists

ok

>>724105884
>lose war
>hehe you only won cause you got more soliders

>>724093718 (OP)
>Wins by being dirty jews that take 30% of each game purchase
>Wins by selling their souls and making games that cater to subhuman chinks and ziggers
>Wins by creating lootboxes, the biggest cancer in Gaming
>Wins by not having a single Source 2 game with a decent netcode
>Wins by releasing flop after flop and then silently shutting it down
>Wins by going all in in a small market segment, having first movers advantage, and still being second in it (VR lol)
>Wins by having 20K Players RIGHT NOW on their latest hyped multiplayer MobA
>Wins by creating a safe space and echo chamber for trannies in said games Discord
>Wins by lying to release an anti-cheat in Deadlock, which actually turns out to be all manual bans from Discord volunteers

pcbros are so retarded man

>>724102502
>revenue
let's check profit

>>724106946
steamfags have no response to this

>>724106946
How ass blasted are you on a daily basis? Like goddamn.

>>724106946
>>724108253
>>724106310
Tim don't you have to add a cart to your store or something?

>>724108396
tranny spotted. too bad!

>>724093718 (OP)
>Just treat your customers with respect.
>Treat your customers the way they want to be treated.

Yeah, it really is that fucking easy.

I want to give Gabe a sloppy blowjob in his yacht while he shows off his knife collection.

>>724108598
Typical cultist behavior, anyone who doesn't woship your god is the devil(epic/Playstation/Nintendo)

>>724106946
Hey anon, hey anon, hey... KNIFE!

>>724102502
What causes this strain of brainrot where people who are not even involved in business start adopting the "more revenue = better line go up" mentality?

>>724114173
People learn baseline economics of what they think is good/bad and apply it across multiple demographics and angles if it supports their ideals or company they’re going to bat for as a way to dunk or bait people

>>724106946
Wait a moment didn’t Maplestory invent Lootboxes in 2004? I get the whole post is bait but you can swap that to paid mods to be actually accurate

>>724102502
>350 employees has a higher profit than 8300
wtf

>>724106410
>it's cultist to say a company should improve their product and store over paying for paid exclusives
>posts some 3 companies that pay for exclusives over having a good product
>one of them suing over fucking gameplay patents so they can keep making shit pokemon games for eternity

Until they ream his ass for all the suicides.

>>724114173
A lack of religion so they make companies their new God.

We really need Sharia Law for gamers.
You wanna be a faggot? You're losing your mouse hand.

>>724117283
Shut the fuck up tripfaggot. You'll never be Manlytears, you'll never be Lanced Jack, in a month's time nobody will know you even existed.

>>724117369
ok commie

>>724117435
You must be new here.

>>724106946
>wins by not having paid exclusives
>wins by actually having basic functionality like a shopping cart and the ability to move games between different drives
yes, no fuck off timmy

>>724102502
steamies btfo

Valve thrived because
>Gaben is lazy and only changes things when he needs to do so
>it's a private company, so Gaben is immune to retarded board members pushing idiotic, short-sighted decisions on him
>all of Gaben's enemies are evil, short-sighted retards

Public trading is the devil.